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First lady Melania Trump expressed hope that a humanitarian ceasefire around a city in Ukraine would inspire progress toward a “more enduring” peace, as she hosted representatives from Russia and Ukraine at the White House on Thursday.
The Iran war was the reason for the Democrats' blue tsunami that stunned Washington, Vice President Vance said in an X post Wednesday morning. Why it matters: The VP offered a surprisingly blunt assessment of why the GOP got crushed Tuesday night — and started to put at least a little daylight betwe
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday said he would commute all 548 death sentences in the state to life in prison without parole, marking a major step away from capital punishment as he prepares to leave office after eight years.
The move follows a bank collapse and after the lower house of congress voted in favour of pursuing an impeachment trial against him.
City Council member Nithya Raman has defeated incumbent Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral race, NBC News projects, capping off a rapid political ascent for a progressive challenger who railed against the “broken status quo” in the country’s second-largest metropolis.
The Senate race in deep-red Mississippi remains unresolved Thursday morning, as Democrat Scott Colom has mounted a surprisingly competitive challenge to incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
We have put together 17 of our top stories from our coverage of the US midterm elections. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Democrats take US Congress, reshaping Trump’s final two years – as it happened Democrats seized both chambers of Congress in the 2
The results of the midterm tallies have set up a two-year power struggle between Trump’s White House and the incoming Democratic Congress. Lisa Desjardins takes a look at the races and the potential size of the incoming Democratic majority.
Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa (D) will hold her first news conference on Thursday afternoon, days after defeating incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in Tuesday’s midterm elections. The win ends more than three decades of GOP control of the governor’s mansion.
The Latino inroads Trump made over the last decade have been completely reversed
Trump says his proclamation will protect his Oval Office and Cabinet Room redesigns from being altered by future presidents.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth faces a bipartisan impeachment threat as House Republicans say a privileged resolution could pass when Congress returns.
Many donated money to President Trump’s favored causes and became his allies. Now that political alignment may be a liability.
ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze reports on why data centers have emerged as a key issue in the midterm elections, especially in states like Texas.
OpenAI pledged to solicit community input around AI data centers, publish construction plans and protect ratepayers.
Cruz and Trump seem to have no plans to fill FCC's empty Democratic seat.
Data centers were on the ballot in dozens of races last night. They lost most of them.
With the US midterms over, Democrats are turning to what could become one of their most crowded and unpredictable presidential primaries in decades – a 2028 contest likely to expose the party's divide over how to win back the White House. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herber
Chuck Schumer ignored questions twice about abolishing the filibuster as Democrats prepare to take the Senate majority after midterm victories.
How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.
Top AI companies that had cozied up to President Donald Trump over the past two years are now bracing for the fallout from Democrats’ resounding victories in the US midterm elections.
Investigators, using subpoenas and other law enforcement powers, are accelerating an inquiry that takes the Trump administration into the inner workings of the court.
Georgia Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms discussed working with the Trump administration in an interview with ABC News’ Linsey Davis.
Democrats won control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections, CBS News projects, with victories in battleground districts across the country.
Top officials in Iran are welcoming the results of U.S. midterm elections, casting them as a rejection of President Trump's war. Iran's Parliament speaker and chief negotiator said on Wednesday that American voters sent a clear message against the war.
President Trump was convicted in 2024 of 34 felonies tied to a 2016 "hush money" payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
President Trump wrote Thursday that incumbent Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) should receive the vote totals for Dan J. Sullivan, a Senate candidate in Alaska's tumultuous race who has the same name as the incumbent lawmaker. The big picture: Trump's DOJ has sought to intervene in the race, citing vote
Only two days after the midterm elections, allies of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) launched a new effort Thursday to urge the California House member to run for president in 2028. Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and progressive political activist Nomiki Konst are the co-chairs of the “Run Ro” draft c
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) formally launched his bid for speaker of the House on Wednesday in a letter to colleagues obtained by Axios. Why it matters: Jeffries is widely expected to secure the speaker's gavel after House Democrats' landslide midterm win.
Georgia governor declares local emergencies as National Weather Service issues warning: ‘Seek higher ground now!’ Severe storms brought heavy rain and flash flooding to communities across the Georgia - Tennessee border area late on Wednesday and into Thursday morning that forced dozens of rescues, d
WASHINGTON — Harmeet Dhillon, the Republican attorney who oversaw a massive overhaul of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, submitted her resignation on Thursday.
Base rate increases from 3.75% and Bank governor signals another rise in near future to combat rising inflation Analysis: Interest rate rise in midst of cost of living crisis will leave many incredulous The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the first time in three years and warned of ano
Mississippi's Senate race remains undecided by dozens of votes as deep-red states nearly flipped in the GOP's stunning election night bloodbath.
Diplomats and business leaders fear that, with the U.S. election now over, the war pitting the U.S. and Israel against Iran could escalate.
After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
In New Mexico, former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was elected governor, making her the first Native American woman elected to lead a U.S. state. In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan became the first Native American woman senator.
Voters handed the Democrats commanding control of Congress, putting a powerful check on President Trump during his final two years in office.
President Trump's Republican Party suffered an electoral humiliation Tuesday night that stretched across the battleground map and into some of the deepest-red territory in America. Why it matters: The 2026 midterms will go down as one of the most sweeping repudiations of a sitting president in moder
A report from the cryptocurrency exchange described a monthslong campaign involving fake job interviews that exploited an engineer’s work computer and an internal A.I. tool.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, have already jumped in to run for Johnson’s place.
President Donald Trump said that he has made a deal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the United States to stop sending $4 billion in aid annually to Israel. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports on what this means for the U.S. midterm elections.
Democrats won control of the House on Tuesday by flipping more than two dozen Republican-held seats, picking up perennial swing districts and seats that were once considered deep red.
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday shot back against threats of impeachment. In a video posted on the social platform X Thursday afternoon, Hegseth said that “a disgruntled, defeated congressman, along with all his Democrat allies, has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours
With Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom leading by a razor-thin margin on Thursday, CNN's Annie Grayer went inside an election office in Jackson, Mississippi, where county commissioners sorted through ballots as Colom seeks to unseat incumbent GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Hegseth has promised to continue his anti-DEI push at the Pentagon amid a crushing midterm defeat
Rep. David Valadao’s loss and Rep. Dan Newhouse’s retirement mark the end of a consequential chapter for House Republicans. Decision Desk HQ’s Geoffrey Skelley and The Hill’s Bill Sammon break down how their departures could reshape the caucus.
Millions of Americans cast their ballots on Tuesday in an election that showed the resiliency of democracy. The president said he would accept the results.
Widespread Republican losses in the midterm elections are roiling the GOP, prompting soul-searching over what went wrong, and a brewing blame-game that's expected to heat up as the party looks toward the next election.
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said he will “not back down” against a “lame duck” Congress, and that the drives for his impeachment will “not work” in his first reaction after Democrats’ landslide victory in Tuesday’s election. In a video uploaded by the Pentagon on Thursday, Hegseth said that
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